Quotes About Legacy

Be true and faithful to yourself, and start the day with a promise to make your day worth remembering. Carry the good work of yesterday to a logical end today.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God 'Why was I here? What was my purpose?' Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Mans greatest fear is to be forgotten, to leave a legacy is to say 'Don't forget me.'

You only get one chance in this lifetime, don't go down being labeled as a bi....

Happiness is, watching my daughter being silly with her daughter and the circle continues.

Here lies a good fellow who spent his life while he had it.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on he world a benefit when he dies.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A person who does not remember where he came from will never reach his destination.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It's great to earn, but don't leave it behind for someone else to burn.

First you Yearn to Earn. Then you Learn that others will Burn what you Earn. Stop! Turn and Spend before your End.

Earn People who can stand beside you and share a step in your life journey. Not who can sit beside you when you are dead.

Heed this... What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for another, remains eternal

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.